Kew’s rescue mission: arborists head to Scotland after tons of of timber and crops felled by Storm Éowyn

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Scotland’s botanic gardens undergo ‘unimaginable’ lack of uncommon specimens

For greater than a century, each time winter got here to Scotland, they stood tall towards the wind and rain and snow. But final month, battered by Storm Éowyn, tons of of uncommon and historic timber within the dwelling assortment of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh had been misplaced.

The charity has 4 websites in Scotland. Its tallest tree in Edinburgh, a 166-year-old Himalayan cedar, fell throughout Éowyn’s gusts of as much as 80mph, whereas Benmore Botanic Garden on the west coast has suffered “unimaginable” devastation.

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